'Do the very best you can': Residents of Iowa assisted living facility offer back-to-school advice

Abigail Rosenthal, GateHouse Media

Thursday

Aug 29, 2019 at 10:41 AM

These Iowa senior citizens might be well out of the classroom, but they have some valuable tips for students back in school.

Residents of Garden View Assisted Living in Carroll, Iowa offered some words of advice for students heading back to class this fall.

Each person who participated posed with a whiteboard that showed his or her first name, graduation year, age and a piece of advice learned over the years.

Garden View Assisted Living shared 15 photos on its Facebook page.

Don, 93, said that "good students ask questions." Loretta, 93 (and three-quarters), told students to "study and remember what you've learned." Rita Ann, 88, offered a motto her parents told her growing up: "It is not IF you're going to go to college, it is WHERE."

The post has been shared over 50,000 times on Facebook.

"You all have no idea how happy and proud this makes us!" the center wrote in a comment. "Every single day we are blessed to experience these amazing relationships, and we are floored that in one post you all can see how happy our tenants are and how much our staff love being a part of their community."

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